Survey Data
Reg No
31310020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Scientific
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1894
Coordinates
121282, 276647
Date Recorded
15/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of vermiculated-banded drag edged dragged limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Cavetto"-detailed cornices below capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates with vermiculated-banded drag edged dragged limestone ashlar outer piers on moulded cushion courses on benchmark-inscribed plinths having monolithic stringcourses below capping. Now disused. Road fronted on a corner site at entrance to grounds of Towerhill House.
Appraisal
A gateway not only making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at the principal entrance on to the grounds of the Towerhill House estate, but also illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the later nineteenth century: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824). NOTE: A recent plaque (2010) records that 'on Towerhill Demesne on the 23rd Jan. 1887 Mayo's Colours "The Green above the Red" were worn for the first time'.